University of Liège reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The University of Liège has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period

Liège University Library collects data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides these data sets to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Paul Thirion.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 219 articles, total expenditure amounts to 369,423€ and the average fee is 1,687€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 71 96775 1363
Springer Nature 30 69192 2306
Frontiers Media SA 23 55254 2402
Elsevier BV 22 40209 1828
Wiley-Blackwell 12 20183 1682
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 15900 1590
Copernicus GmbH 5 5568 1114
American Dairy Science Association 3 5077 1692
MyJove Corporation 3 8076 2692
Informa UK Limited 2 4885 2442
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 2936 1468
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 1694 847
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 4492 2246
AIP Publishing 1 623 623
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 709 709
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 719 719
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2000 2000
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 1 1136 1136
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1 1973 1973
American Society of Hematology 1 2857 2857
AOSIS 1 1122 1122
Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 1 789 789
BiomedGrid LLC 1 973 973
BMJ 1 1196 1196
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 399 399
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1698 1698
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1802 1802
Global Science Library 1 5133 5133
Graphyonline Publications PVT, Ltd. 1 203 203
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1012 1012
IOP Publishing 1 1961 1961
Iris Publishers 1 563 563
Lifescience Global 1 330 330
MIT Press - Journals 1 1068 1068
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 547 547
PeerJ 1 1006 1006
Rockefeller University Press 1 618 618
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1912 1912
Science Publishing Group 1 704 704
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 330 330
Scientific Societies 1 490 490
Society for Neuroscience 1 2745 2745
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 200 200
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1908 1908
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 1 456 456

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Liège now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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KIT reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.

The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.

Contact person is Doris Jaeger.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 255 articles, total expenditure amounts to 398,239€ and the average fee is 1,562€.

The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 104 154490 1485
Copernicus GmbH 45 75659 1681
Frontiers Media SA 30 52350 1745
Springer Nature 22 37569 1708
Elsevier BV 9 10415 1157
Wiley-Blackwell 8 12360 1545
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 11147 1592
IEEE 5 8365 1673
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 5780 1927
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 2711 904
AAAS 2 4000 2000
American Physical Society (APS) 2 3224 1612
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 2836 1418
Schweizerbart 2 3869 1934
AIP Publishing 1 1919 1919
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 824 824
EDP Sciences 1 857 857
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1790 1790
Exeley, Inc. 1 571 571
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1977 1977
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1069 1069
IOP Publishing 1 1746 1746
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1049 1049
The Royal Society 1 1080 1080
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 580 580

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 13 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 13 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 9 of them reporting for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 864 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,410,905€ and the average fee is 1,633€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (new)
  • Université de Tours (new)
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc (new)
  • Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis (new)
  • ONERA (new)
  • Université de Nouvelle Calédonie (new)
  • Le Mans Université (new)
  • Laboratoire national d’essais (new)
  • Université de Lille (new)
  • CIRAD
  • INRIA
  • Université de Poitiers
  • Université Clermont Auvergne

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 214 287386 1343
Springer Nature 160 286759 1792
Frontiers Media SA 133 265628 1997
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 63 93473 1484
Elsevier BV 61 127238 2086
Wiley-Blackwell 35 70906 2026
Optical Society of America (OSA) 18 32029 1779
Informa UK Limited 16 29215 1826
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 13 20518 1578
IEEE 12 17154 1430
Oxford University Press (OUP) 10 22601 2260
Copernicus GmbH 8 9098 1137
JMIR Publications Inc. 8 12558 1570
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 8 4579 572
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 20366 2909
American Society for Microbiology 5 8338 1668
BMJ 5 7943 1589
IOP Publishing 5 8368 1674
American Chemical Society (ACS) 4 6010 1502
SAGE Publications 4 3129 782
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 4 4008 1002
American Physical Society (APS) 3 4233 1411
EDP Sciences 3 910 303
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6915 2305
PeerJ 3 2810 937
Academic Journals 2 1011 506
AIP Publishing 2 1972 986
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 2 1438 719
ASBMB 2 4200 2100
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2 725 362
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 2474 1237
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 2 1436 718
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1318 659
Scientific Societies 2 838 419
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 408 408
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1200 1200
American Meteorological Society 1 156 156
American Scientific Publishers 1 473 473
American Society of Hematology 1 2633 2633
AOSIS 1 503 503
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 631 631
Austin Publishing Group 1 884 884
BioCOre 1 810 810
Biomedical Research Network, LLC 1 356 356
Cogitatio 1 900 900
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 4215 4215
European Association of Geochemistry 1 1250 1250
Genetics Society of America 1 1930 1930
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 88 88
Herald Scholarly Open Access 1 855 855
Horizon Research Publishing 1 259 259
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2883 2883
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 1 704 704
Japan Oil Chemists’ Society 1 255 255
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology 1 11 11
Juniper Publishers 1 502 502
OMICS Publishing Group 1 894 894
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 975 975
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2838 2838
PAGEPress Publications 1 1250 1250
Pan African Medical Journal 1 186 186
Pensoft Publishers 1 540 540
Portland Press Ltd. 1 2590 2590
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 1680 1680
Rockefeller University Press 1 1701 1701
S. Hirzel Verlag 1 1200 1200
Science Publications 1 572 572
Society for Neuroscience 1 2571 2571
Society of Physical Therapy Science 1 12 12
Southern Cross Publishing 1 440 440
Symbiosis Group 1 1187 1187
The Company of Biologists 1 1200 1200
The Royal Society 1 1065 1065
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 345 345
VIBGYOR ePress 1 169 169

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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